Onochie’s INEC Nomination Is Buhari's Plan for Third Term Agenda - CUPP

 

The Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP has kicked against Lauretta Onochie's nomination as a commissioner for the Independent and National Electorial Commission.

 

CUPP alleged that the Buhari administration is harbouring a third term agenda and that it is the major factor in the nomination of the president’s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, as INEC commissioner by the president.

 

In a Press Release signed by opposition Spokesperson, Comrade Mark Adebayo, CUPP vehemently condemns the nomination and Senate screening of Mrs Onochie and calls it “a dangerous threat to democracy and the unveiling of APC’s third-term agenda”.

 

According to CUPP, “in the established tradition of the Buhari regime, it has again turned deaf ears to the overwhelming public outcry against the ill-advised nomination of a known sycophant of the president as an INEC commissioner.

“Such a person, especially with Mrs Onochie‘s pedigree of insulting majority of Nigerians who disagree with the failed government under which she serves due to her blind biases, cannot be trusted with a sensitive national assignment as the position of an INEC commissioner. It is not only dangerous to our democracy but a present and clear danger to the integrity of our electoral processes,” the statement said.

 

According to the statement, “An Onochie as INEC’s national commissioner is like having a known criminal preside as a judge in a case where he/she is the accused. Put differently, it is akin to asking a student to mark his/her examination script and those of his/her colleagues who sat for the same examination together.